Sunday, December 28, 2008

[Even though I didn't do a proper write-up for this book, I've decided to count it as complete - your insightful comments make it scarily apparent that I'm not as essential to the smooth functioning of this blog as I'd once imagined]

Hey folks - I'm on vacation, working from an unfamiliar computer, and I cannot get Blogger to publish correctly. It's All kinds of screwed up. So ... patience. I'll be back with more as soon as I can. Til then, enjoy this random cover, which I may or may not be able to blog in the near future:

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Okay... strangely long, thin revolver, pointlessly tiny Lone Ranger mask, reins that obey the physics of no known material on Earth (possibly those joke invisible dog leads)... But this has to be one of my favourite covers ever. Something about the horse's posture and the wind-swept clothing, I think. Oh, and the Gay Bandit.

Given the relative sizes, I think he's riding a pony, not a horse. Well, "riding" may not be completely accurate, as the animal seems pretty firmly planted there.

And it looks like, while our bandit is shooting with his right hand, it is his left holster which is empty. While drawing one's gun from across one's body may not be that fast or efficient, perhaps it is the mark of a gay bandit.

His hair is close-cropped, and he can't have shaved more than an hour ago. His hat is crisply blocked, and his bright red shirt and sassy yellow bandana are immaculately laundered. I wouldn't want to indulge in stereotypes, but for a Man of Action in the Old West, he is certainly... well-groomed.

I think it's meant in the original sense. Unfortunately that went out of usage a while ago...in one of the Narnia books (The Silver Chair) a character says something like "We must act gay and frolicsome," which doesn't sound so kid-friendly any more.

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